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Why," continued he, turning to the harper, "I ask your pardon for speaking out so free before strangers in praise of my own, which I know is not mannerly; but the truth is the fittest thing to be spoken, as I think, at all times; therefore, here's your good health, Susan; why, by-and-by she'll be worth her weight in gold in silver at least.
Taken in its bald abstraction, it is not a code or anything like a code. Who can walk, without walking in some particular way, in some direction, at some time? Who can mind his manners without being mannerly in accordance with the usages of some race or people?
The others had been perfectly happy in their several ways, and made eager comments on their way to the house of Harewood, whither Lance piloted them this time by the front way, through the garden, which lay behind the close entering, in spite of the mannerly demurs of the elder ones, through the open door, into a hall whence a voice of hearty greeting at once ensued.
English children are well dressed because they are simply dressed; and the children themselves, in contrast to the overdressed, overly aggressive youngsters so frequently encountered in America, are mannerly and self-effacing, and have sane, simple, childish tastes.
And as he was coming homeward, on Blackheath, at the end thereof next to Shooter's Hill, he overtook two Rufflers, the one mannerly waiting on the other, as one had been the master and the other his man or servant, carrying his master's cloak. This old man was very glad that he might have their company over the hill, because that day he had made a good market.
Now Jin Vin was so full of his jibes and jeers, and so willing, and so ready, and so serviceable, and so mannerly all the while, with a step that sprung like a buck's in Epping Forest, and his eye that twinkled as black as a gipsy's, that no woman who knew the world would make a comparison betwixt the lads.
I suppose it was always in me to do it, though, the first time I met any one who didn't know me well enough not to listen." "But you're not really talking to me," said Mary. "You're just thinking aloud." "No," he returned, gravely. "I'm not thinking at all; I'm only making vocal sounds because I believe it's more mannerly.
Before we went to bed he offered me sixpence to help me on my way, out of a scanty store he kept in the turf wall of his house; at which excess of goodness I knew not what to do. But at last he was so earnest with me that I thought it the more mannerly part to let him have his way, and so left him poorer than myself. The next day Mr.
I hope ye was mannerly and humble and profited by the words of grace." "I don't know," said Cissy, putting aside her hat and cloak listlessly. "He didn't talk much of anything but the old wreck of the Tamalpais." "What?" said her aunt quickly. "The wreck of the Tamalpais, and the boat's crew that came up the gorge," repeated the young girl.
Dada was evidently abashed; less by reason of the splendor that surrounded her than because her foster-mother had strictly enjoined her to be very quiet and mannerly in the presence of their patrons.
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